I had a bit of a rant about animal mis-treatment and vegan-ism the other day.
Since then, I have actually chatted to a NZ farmer dude. It appears that NZ beef is actually aquired (sp) in a reasonably humane manner - the bulls get a few years of happy life in mid-hill country then get killed by electrocution with 40,000 volts which kills them instantly (unlike America - DO NOT START ME TALKING ABOUT THAT).
So NZ steaks are OK. Chickens and eggs are another story - as is lamb. (would you like to be killed when you are 18)
Steak = OK. Chicken + lamb + veal = evil and nasty.
I've been to a meat works and seen the process. I understood that the electricity just stuns them, and the throat cutting is what really finishes them. They don't feel that though, because of the stunning...
> I had a bit of a rant about animal mis-treatment and vegan-ism the > other day.
> Since then, I have actually chatted to a NZ farmer dude. It appears > that NZ beef is actually aquired (sp) in a reasonably humane manner - > the bulls get a few years of happy life in mid-hill country then get > killed by electrocution with 40,000 volts which kills them instantly > (unlike America - DO NOT START ME TALKING ABOUT THAT).
> So NZ steaks are OK. Chickens and eggs are another story - as is lamb. > (would you like to be killed when you are 18)
> Steak = OK. Chicken + lamb + veal = evil and nasty.
> Cheers, S
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Ama-illy <amelie.goldb...@gmail.com > <mailto:amelie.goldb...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> At the tipping point: thinking beyond sustainability event by Nandor > Tanzcos
Different meatworks have different methods of operation.
For example "halaal" animals are blessed, then have their throats slit and are bled to death which takes 20 minutes to an hour. Isn't that nice!
In the SPCA animals with fatal viruses etc are killed by painless injection, and not in front of other animals - I think if animal is killed so that we can have a burger, it should also have a humane death, not to mention a reasonable life where it is treated with a bit of respect. (not that spca euthanised animals are made into burgers, as far as I know)
However it is not all bad, there is an outfit in Rangitikei that produces free-range cornfed chickens. The chickens keep their beaks (normally chickens have their beaks sliced off carelessly ecause chickens are squashed into little cages and they attack each other. They are also normally fed ground up chicken bones). These rangitikei chickens wander in and out of barns and fields, and have a normal life with a social pecking order. Corn-fed free-range chickens have yellowy fleshy meat and taste great.
Meat is an excellent source of nutrition - but we really need to all know what we are eating and where it comes from. If it is free-range and organic, that is a start. The industrialisation of meat and animal products has produced some shameful practises - which people choose to "block out" and "look the other way". Tuna is apparantly bad - there isn't any except in the Pacific any more, and it is caught in a rather nasty way - and there are probably bits of dolphin in your can of tuna - according to the latest greenpeace letter.
I wouldn't be surprised if most cancer and mental illnesses are related to eating meat that is produced industrially, the animals get fed a whole lot of crap and their terror when they are slaughtered must do something....
On 5/3/08, Rimu Atkinson <rimuatkin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been to a meat works and seen the process. I understood that the > electricity just stuns them, and the throat cutting is what really finishes > them. They don't feel that though, because of the stunning...
> R
> seth fraser wrote:
> Hi,
> I had a bit of a rant about animal mis-treatment and vegan-ism the other > day.
> Since then, I have actually chatted to a NZ farmer dude. It appears that > NZ beef is actually aquired (sp) in a reasonably humane manner - the bulls > get a few years of happy life in mid-hill country then get killed by > electrocution with 40,000 volts which kills them instantly (unlike America - > DO NOT START ME TALKING ABOUT THAT).
> So NZ steaks are OK. Chickens and eggs are another story - as is lamb. > (would you like to be killed when you are 18)
> Steak = OK. Chicken + lamb + veal = evil and nasty.
> Cheers, S
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Ama-illy <amelie.goldb...@gmail.com> > wrote:
> > At the tipping point: thinking beyond sustainability event by Nandor > > Tanzcos
